WEB shopping site Amazon today sold out of reserve orders for the new Nintendo console in just seven minutes.
The online retailer said a rush of buyers for the Wii made it the site's fastest selling pre-order item.
The website’s available reserves sold out faster than its previous pre-order copies of the Harry Potter books and the Coldplay album, X and Y.
Nintendo’s Wii console will hit stores in the UK on December 8 priced at £179.99.
It is hotly tipped to be a best-seller during the busy run up to Christmas, due partly to the delayed UK launch of the rival PlayStation3 console.
Amazon.co.uk’s console and videogames manager James Schall said: "We expected a high number of people to visit the site today but the response was phenomenal."
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Thanks to the good Doctor for this 'un.
The question is, why would anyone need effort to outsell Coldplay in the first place?